Of course, you can add links to a personal blog or other online writing to your LinkedIn profile as well. The key issue here is whether you can expand your reach using the LinkedIn platform. The analytics will tell the tale. Anyone else want to share advice?

As InformationWeek Government readers were busy firming up their fiscal year 2015 budgets, we asked them to rate more than 30 IT initiatives in terms of importance and current leadership focus. No surprise, among more than 30 options, security is No. 1. After that, things get less predictable.